Word: shiploading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years guidebooks to Europe have warned travelers to Naples to keep a firm hand on their luggage and an eye peeled for pickpockets. In the openly larcenous days of World War II, a pack of local thieves once made off with a whole shipload of sugar-ship & all. Last spring when Achille Lauro, Naples' wealthiest shipowner, took office as mayor, he promised to clean up the permanent Neapolitan crime wave. "We must operate like surgeons," he told his police force, who promptly went to work rounding up hundreds of pickpockets. Plainclothesmen roamed the streets in squads of three...
...open to charges of interference. One push in the other direction, appreciated by Italians: his efforts to get the terms of the Italian peace treaty relaxed. An indefatigable salesman for the U.S., Dunn is always on hand to dedicate a new bridge built by ECA funds, to present a shipload of toys from the American Legion, or a snow plow from the citizens of Jersey City to an Alpine village...
Democrats in the audience began walking out quietly while MacArthur was midway in his speech. Next morning, Fair Dealing Congressman Hugh Mitchell called MacArthur a "demagogue," and refused to show up for a MacArthur ceremony welcoming a shipload of veterans home from Korea. A Washington Democratic National committeeman and the Truman-appointed U.S. collector of customs resigned in protest from Greater Seattle, Inc., the nonpartisan civic group which invited MacArthur to inaugurate Seattle's centennial show...
...nations on earth are less color-conscious than Brazil, none more so than the Union of South Africa. Last week, when the Brazilian navy training ship Almirante Saldanha docked in Cape Town harbor, a shipload of sailors and officers ranging in skin tone from pale copper to charcoal black streamed into the city, made havoc of Premier Daniel Malan's brutally enforced segregation policy...
...global scramble for strategic materials, Russia last week grabbed with both hands. In Singapore, the Soviets bought rubber by the shipload, sent prices bouncing up almost 6?a pound in one day to 52.5? a pound. As a result, rubber also rocketed in New York-to 54.3? a pound, a 22-year record. New York's Commodity Exchange governors, fearing that the futures market was soaring out of control (a speculator who put up $800 to buy rubber futures in January could have had a $7,500 profit last week), ordered speculative futures margins doubled; buyers...